discoveries

After seeing Kung Fu Panda the other day we wandered in the drizzle down the Thames, though the little park that is to the right of Embankment station.

One discovery here was a statue to W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert & Sullivan. Gilbert & Sullivan is the Victorian era partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). Together, they wrote fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896. When I was younger (and living at home) I would go with my parents to see the Chester County Gilbert & Sullivan Society every year.

The statue in this park has written on it:

Is life a boon?
      If so, it must befal
that death, whene'er he call
      must call too soon.
                           W.S. Gilbert